History Blog

June 18

Happy Birthday RIP “E.G. Marshall”(Everett Grunz 1914–1998) Roger Ebert(1942–2013) ; James Paul McCartney–83 Carolyn Kane–73 Isabella Rossellini–73 Kimberly Dickens–60 Blake Shelton–49 Alana de la Garza–49 David Giuntoli–45 Kevin Bishop–45 Richard Madden–39 Jacob Anderson–35 ; 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets of New York City ; 1948 – Columbia Records unveiled its new long-playing, 33 1/3 rpm phonograph record with the recording of the New York Philharmonic playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto